Tempest

We stood the arcade in the centre of the Square, facing each other. I glared at him.

"YOU OWE ME A MASTERBALL!!!" I yelled. I might as well start the argument off with that. I was angry, no one in this damned place had the faintest clue as to who I was! Do you have any idea how insulting that was? And to top the day off, I’d almost had two of the legendary birds of the Wings of Council in my possession!

I was a pissed off trainer looking for a fight. And Seth had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. It also didn’t help that I hated him anyway.

He looked around nervously at the people who had milled around us in curiosity.

"Settle down!" He urged.

"NO!"

He leaped back, wincing.

Then his expression hardened.

He scowled. "You know what? I have had it up to here with you!"

"Yeah?! Well I've had it up to here with you!!!" I retorted.

He raised a fist, shaking it in my face, "Chill out babe! Ever since I met you, you've been treating me like shit!"

"That's because you are shit!"

"Takes one to know one!"

I growled, grabbed my masterballs, three in each hand and challenged; "Answer THIS!!"

Likewise, he grabbed all of his. Hah! Did he think that he could actually beat me?

We glared at each other.

"Moltres! Articuno! Zapdos! Shirasharmi! Lugia! Seraph! GO!!!!!!"

"Raikou! Suicune! Entie! Houndoom! Gryffon! Arcanine! GET HER!"

Mei Ling

… and leaped out.

I gaped as I watched him fall to the cement below.

"Pidgeot! Go!" His giant bird squawked and swept beneath the Poppinjenellos Bandit member, flying him to safety.

"Damn it!" I screeched, “I wasn’t finished!”

Whipping out a pokeball I flung it out the window; "Blaze! Get out here!"

My giant charizard materialized beneath the sill.

With a goofy grin he said, "Hi there! Hic, how you doin' hic, Mei Ping?"

I hit slapped a hand to my head. Did I ever mention that my charizard was an alcoholic?

I groaned, "Oh man! Blaze! Why can't you just sober up for once?"

His facial features went through a series of expressions and finally settled on guilt crossed with determination, "You know what Mei Ping? You're absolutely hic, right! No more drinking, hic, for me!"

I shook my head in exasperation, that wasn’t the first time he’d said that. Sighing I said, "O.K Then! After that moron on the Pidgeot!"

Blaze looked dazedly about, spotted them swooping through the air, blinked, squealed, and covered his eyes with his claws in terror, "You can’t, hic, make me go up against them! There, hic, are five of em!"

I groaned, holding up my hand, "How many fingers am I holding up?"

He concentrated on them with bloodshot eyes, "Huh? Oh good god! You've got eleven fingers! I’m gonna throw up."

“Aaagh!” Waved my hand frantically, “Not here!”

Too late, his head hunched over and I turned away as retching noises sounded from below.

“That was, hic, better.”

I slumped, this was not going to be easy, "You'll just have to do. After the them, Blaze!"

"O-Okay, hic, I'll twy my best."

I clambered up the windowsill and leapt out with the intention of landing on his back. Infuriatingly, he'd moved just as I'd jumped out the window and I missed him, falling right passed the damned charizard and sailed towards the ground.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

My arms flailed as I rocketed towards the pavement, "BBLLLLAAAZZZZEEE!"

Whoosh!

“Ooomph!” My drunkard of a pokemon had caught me just in time!

Breathing heavily I cried, "O.K! After them!"

"Yeah!" He cried, excited. "Time to open me up a can of, hic, Whoop-Ass!"

Instead, he swooped low and grabbed a tequila bottle from a liquor stall on the side of the street.

"Nooo!" I cried. But too late.

He cracked it open, and took a mighty long swig.

Seth

"You are so going to pay!" My team of pokemon burst from their pokeballs, and charged towards Tempest's. O.K, not exactly 'charged', but they went in the general direction.

"Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! I can't believe it! I can't believe it!" My blue suicune cried excitedly in a happy little stupor. His tongue lagged out, lolling out the side of his mouth as he chased his white ribbon tail, "This time I am so going to get you, you mysterious fiend attached to my ass!"

Gryffon as expected, promptly sat on the ground, hunching over a novel. He carefully, ever so delicately gripped the edge of a page with a huge forefinger and painstakingly flipped the leaf over.

RRRIIIIIIIIIPPPP!!!

Seeing as his claws were just way too big, he'd accidentally torn the book in half. Ed stared down at the remaining tatters his novel. Then eyes blazing he leaped up and held a fist in the air, crying in anguish; "DAAAAAMMMMMN IIIIIIIIT!!!"

He glared about – ready to take out his anger on the nearest possible body, "All right! Who the hell wants to fight me?!"

Looking up delightedly, Suicune put up his paw, like the smart little boy in the front of the classroom anxious to answer the teacher's question, "Me! Me! Me! Me!"

Tempest's Articuno barrelled through the air, "I'll fight you! You overgrown bookworm!"

"Awww! Why can't I?" Suicune whined.

My Raikou, Entie, Houndoom and the rest of my pokemon, bar Ed, and Suicune, growled at Tempest's Birds of the Wings of Council.

However, Tempest’s birds were oblivious; Zapdos, Moltres, Seraph, and Lugia were more interested in abusing the crap out of each other.

The miniature dove pokemon the size of a pidgey growled at one of the birds, its glassy wings flashing in the full sunlight. "Who the hell are you looking at!"

Scarlet feathers shone, "Definitely not you! Why would I want to look at your ugly face!"

"Are you calling me ugly!?"

"What do you think I'm calling you!"

"Come here you trash!"

"I'm not trash! I burn it!"

Zapdos and Lugia circled each other dangerously, eye the other with contempt.

Zapdos with his thick Mafia accent, "I’ll cut you cakarosh!"

“Oh yeah?”

"You a dead bird!"

Suicune popped up, "I like chicken."

"Huh?"

Their muscled necks snapped towards my little Suicune, "GET HIM!!"

"W-W-What did I do!?" He yelped.

Oh man! I groaned, hitting my forehead with the palm of my hand. Ouch.

This was not going the way I had planned it.

Tempest whirled around, shouting orders. No one listened.

"Bloody hell! Attack THEM!!! Not each other!"

She screamed in frustration, watching Moltres and Seraph bombard each other with a series of firespins and silvershards attacks.

"You're going down!!!"

"Shut your scrawny beak!"

My dogs, Raikou, Houndoom, and Entie were battling it out against Tempest's shirasharmi, Coo-ee, the sunset bird screeched and cried haughtily, "You know what you blokes are? You're all piss and wind!"

The three mighty dogs of legend looked at each other confusedly, "Dude, what's he talking about?"

Gryffon and Artemis clawed at each other, feathers flew.

"SQQUUAAWWWK!" The articuno screeched, firing a beam of ice, Ed dodged, and wall of the building behind him was encased in cold solidified water. The gryffon burst out his own attack, missing Artemis by inches.

BOOOOM!

A statue blew up!

Pulverized marble scattered to the pavement.

"HELP ME!" Yelped Suicune, weaving in and out of the onlooking crowd.

Zapdos and Lugia sought him out, anger ablaze in their eyes.

"I think I saw him!"

"Shut-up you fool!"

"Don't tell me to shut-up!"

"Quiet!"

Above, Moltres and Seraph screamed through the air, fire filled the atmosphere, only to be overtaken by shards of crystal light.

It was chaos and confusion all around me. People gasped and pointed at the sky.

"AAAAAAAAAH!"

"RUUUNN!"

"HELLLPPPP!"

"Arcanine!" I called, my fire dog loped towards me, the only sensible one amongst the lot.

His tongue lolled out the side of his mouth, "What up dog?"

I spied Tempest charging towards me, eyes flaring, hair whipping about her face. I gulped, she looked the physical embodiment of Armageddon.

"Save me!" I yelped.

Tempest

Damn it! If my birds wouldn't listen to me, then I'd have to throttle Seth myself!

I advanced towards him, screams of defiance raged around me, the energy of attacks clashed in the air, excited shouts rose from the bystanders around us.

Seth paled, looked left and right, then with a terrified yelp, hid behind his Arcanine.

Bloody coward.

I reached for him, my hands outstretched in claws, a grin plastered on my face.

He turned to run.

Grabbing him by the sleeve, I yanked him towards me. I might have been small, but living on the road for seven years had strengthened me.

I went for his throat.

Above me, Moltres screeched, "Stop running away you pathetic excuse for a bird!"

"Eat This!"

Seraph let go a white iridescent ball of energy. It rocketed towards Moltres, who in turn, released her most powerful attack; Nova-Arc.

The two powers sped towards each other. I froze, my attention diverted from strangling the Dog trainer. My mouth hung open as I watched the deadly, but beautiful colours racing towards each other. Seraph's Divine-Cannon speeding through the air, Nova-Arc, a brilliant tangerine energy beam resembling a shooting star.

Mei Ling

"Hic! This is the best hic! Dwink I ever had!"

Why me?!

My Charizard was an alcoholic who couldn’t hold his drink. One gulp and he was pissed as a fiddle, drunk as a skunk, under the affluence of inkahol.

"Hee hee hee! I'm King ov da skies! No wuckin' forries!!!!" Blaze howled triumphantly.

"C'mon ya big dope!" I urged, "After the guy on the pidg-"

With a sigh of contentment, Blaze instantly fell asleep and pitched lazily forward, rocketing towards the ground.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

CRASH! We hit the sidewalk, I rolled off the incapacitated Charizard, leapt to my feet and proceeded to pound him uselessly in anguish, "You stupid creature! Get up!"

Muttering, I grabbed another masterball, spied the retreating figure of the Poppinjenellos on his pokemon, and released my galacial.

My anger hadn’t cooled and I wasn’t done with him yet.

Seth

I watched the two powers speed towards one another. Absently rubbing my neck where Tempest had attempted to strangle me.

I held my breath.

The two forces collided.

Mei Ling

"Hah! You're not going to get away from me!" I cried, about to leap onto my ice dragon.

Suddenly:

KAAABBBOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A HUGE MUSHROOM CLOUD EXPLODED INTO THE SKY!!!!!!!

It was the loudest explosion I'd ever heard! Rocking the skies with trembling sound waves, it seemed like the whole world shook!

My jaw dropped open, only one thought popped into my mind.

Tempest and Seth.

If an argument could cause a nuclear explosion, it was theirs.

I hauled myself onto my ice dragon. Thoughts about revenge vanished from my mind as I sped off towards the City-Centre.

"C'mon Azgard!" I called, "Hurry!"

"Patience."

My galacial took the expression ‘small talk’ literally, speaking no more than one word at a time.

I shivered, like all ice pokemon, his aura was cold, as cold as the wind on a crisp winter morning. Azgard was my galacial, a giant pulsating white dragon. His scales were unblemished, the colour of new snow. His outstretched wings, huge and regal were frosted with ice which ended in sharp icicles. Azgard had been a one of my first dragons, a gift from my father. He was one of my better accomplishments, as in my opinion, I had trained him well. Over the three years of my journey, his arms and legs had become very well developed, flexing strong muscles. Golden iridescent patterns and symbols etched into his scales reflected the suns rays. The galacial had a long tail, tattooed with the same design of patterns. It trailed behind us as we flew, tipped with diamond blades. His facial structure was similar to that of a Charizard, with haughty, aggressive features. Blue eyes blazed coldly and from his snowy head, sprouted two ivory horns, each ending in a jagged point sharper than twin knives.

We sped over the buildings of city square. At this distance, I could still see the cracks in the pavement, the crooked trees and the litter scattered across the streets as trash cans had been toppled over by the force. People pushed themselves to their feet, having been thrown to the ground by the explosion, milling about in wonder. No one seemed injured.

Azgard spiralled lazily to the ground. Leaping off my galacial's back, I hurried through the people. Tempest sat calmly on park bench which now sat crookedly, legs crossed, arms folded, expressionless.

"What the hell happened?" I cried, stopping in front of her and indicating the last fluffs of the mushroom cloud disappearing in the sky.

"I got mad."

I shook my head and spied a small group of unconscious people slumped against the arcade wall, one of the stirred before promptly losing consciousness again.

With a gleeful cry, I scurried amongst the sleeping forms, finding and taking items that caught my eye.

Tempest looked at me disgustedly, "Don't you feel any guilt from looting the possessions of defenceless people?”

I gasped, “Tempest! This isn’t looting! This is merely relieving the burden of wealth."

To my utter delight, I found a bright pink cell phone on the unconscious body of a middle aged woman. I turned excitedly to Tempest, "Look! Look what I found!"

"You've all ready got one," she pointed out.

"Oh, I know, but now I have eight!"

She rolled her eyes.

"Ooooh, my head..."

I turned, stumbling across the walkway, head shaking, Seth headed towards us. If Tempest wouldn’t tell me what was going on, Seth would.

"What happened here?" I asked.

"Yeah I'm fine. Thanks for asking." He replied sarcastically. He glared at the blue-black haired trainer. "We just got into uh... a little argument."

"Pokemon battle huh?" I guessed.

"Yeah, I just went and recalled all mine, Tempest's already returned hers. Most of the battles were in the air, so we didn’t cause too much damage, I don’t think."

The wail of sirens filled the air.

Uh-oh. If we didn't get the hell outta there, we'd be busted for disturbing the peace, reckless endangerment and god knew what else.

"Ok, I think that’s our cue to leave." I shoved the last items I had found into my backpack and whipped forth a masterball. “Let’ haul ass already!”